Lectures on approximate groups and Hilbert's 5th problem

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-24298-9_16MaRDI QIDQ2957188zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emmanuel Breuillard

Publication date 25 January 2017

Published in Recent Trends in Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01369

zbMATH Keywords

additive combinatoricsapproximate groupsdiameter boundspolynomial growthscaling limitsvolume doubling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Arithmetic combinatorics; higher degree uniformity (11B30) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05)

Abstract: This paper gathers four lectures, based on a mini-course at IMA in 2014, whose aim was to discuss the structure of approximate subgroups of an arbitrary group, following the works of Hrushovski and of Green, Tao and the author. Along the way we discuss the proof of the Gleason-Yamabe theorem on Hilbert's 5th problem about the structure of locally compact groups and explain its relevance to approximate groups. We also present several applications, in particular to uniform diameter bounds for finite groups and to the determination of scaling limits of vertex transitive graphs with large diameter.

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